Once precedent is set, the shit will hit the fan. That's why Trumpy is fighting all of these so hard. He's fucked...and he knows it. Or, at least, someone in the administration who can hold a thought in their head does.
Hip hip hoorah for Justice Barrington Parker the third, Lord Blue Blood of all the Vermonters! (But not too raucously, please. That would be unseemly.)
And imagine all the others who do not have access to legal assistance that are just sitting there while their family wonders where and how they are. This is scary shit!
She is a PhD candidate from a NATO ally. She is high visibility thanks to her public abduction video by a neighbor not unlike George Floyd's videoed murder. There are hundreds of anonymous disappearances we will never hear about.
I think about the rest of the men renditioned to El Salvador along with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It was great he was able to meet with his Senator, for a lot of reasons, including that now he knows that people care and are fighting for him and he was able to get a message to his wife and kids. Aside from the handful of other names we know, the rest were straight up disappeared and their families have no idea what happened to them. The men themselves have no idea if anyone is fighting to get them released or even know that they are in that torture prison in the first place.
The clock is ticking and it is an open question whether she survives her kidnapping and rendition given the unlimited appeals these champions of the unreconstructed have. She is surely not being provisioned medication because this is a private torture facility-cum-prison.
I actually am old enough to remember how fast Joe Biden's student loan relief got quashed. The court has nothing to do when you have a lawless Executive Branch. And Americans happily gave control of it to a racist, ethnonationalist transnational criminal syndicate...because the same syndicate hates the same minorities they do.
Administration has painted itself into a corner here.
In this and the Abrego Garcia case they wanted to make an example, to intimidate, to crush dissent.
But now it'll have the opposite effect if they lose both. They wanted maximum exposure and now it's going to cut against them. If you live by the sword...
Everyone involved should be charged with criminal contempt and all of the other illegal shit they've done, including Santa Monica Fascist Stephen Miller and Kristi "I kill puppies for fun" Noem. Start with them and work the way down to the lower-level lawyers and various other toadies.
Locking them up is probably the only way to get any of this to stop because they know there are no consequences. There NEEDS to be consequences and the MAGA Congress sure as shit isn't gonna do anything about it.
I'd say potato, potahto, but we saw how well that worked with January 6th. They locked up the foot soldiers while the architects walked free and ended up back in the WH.
Plus, seeing the people at the top going down might make the lower-level people start following the fucking law.
All I ask is that Rubio, Homan, and the rest of these fuckers get to experience the same kindness and compassion that they are currently extending to others. Soon.
I used to think that Rubio was too milquetoast to be dangerous, but apparently he was like the cute furry in Gremlins that turned into a complete horrorshow asshole.
He's "Just following orders." And when this is all over, should be treated like all good people who were "just following orders" while committing/approving atrocities.
Well, the Brits are in a particularly bad spot, all of their own making. Due to Brexit, they put themselves on the outs with the rest of Europe. Now they NEED a trading partner. ANY trading partner.
because [current occupant of the White House] is so very, very easily 'played' and saying those words are 'what it takes' to get by in this Upside Down realpolitik we all have to live in nao
Trump and his gang think they are a proxy government for the Israeli government and that anyone outside of Israel who protests for the Palestinian people are Hamas sympathizers. By that logic, if I protest Putin's war in Ukraine, and Trump wants to get on Putin's good side, he thinks it is reasonable to arrest me as if I was an enemy of Russia.
Everyone in this country needs to be free to express themselves, in political speech especially, without fear of reprisal. HIs arrests and threats of deportation are dictatorship standard operating procedures. This was true here until Trump showed up on the scene. This is a freedom Trump enjoyed until he decided other people don't have this right.
Meanwhile Israel continues its extermination of Gaza, and Trump's mouth is watering over how many casinos and hotels he can build on the land after Israel bulldozes the last vestiges of Palestinian life there. Like Putin, Trump only thinks in terms of what territory - (Pu**ies included) - he can control and the people he can terrorize into doing his bidding - or kill them off and take their land. It is all about grabbing other people's land. It is what the Israeli government is engaged in. Trump wants to cash in on it somehow. He is a greedy capitalistic Fascist in this regard.
Weird how it's not OK to point out that the Israeli government is basically committing ethnic cleansing and sucking up $8 billion in taxpayer dollars.
I can't wait until the tribunals start. Not for us, but for them.
Once precedent is set, the shit will hit the fan. That's why Trumpy is fighting all of these so hard. He's fucked...and he knows it. Or, at least, someone in the administration who can hold a thought in their head does.
Fuck Ted Cruz.
Too bad nobody can be held in contempt of court because they are all so contemptuous
Ta, Dok. Six weeks is far too long to have been disappeared.
“The court ordered the government to transfer her to Vermont by next Wednesday and to stop being such whiny tittybabies.”
I would watch CourtTV if more court orders used the phrase “whiny tittybabies.”
Hip hip hoorah for Justice Barrington Parker the third, Lord Blue Blood of all the Vermonters! (But not too raucously, please. That would be unseemly.)
Whut? https://fedsoc.org/contributors/barrington-parker
I mean, it’s not like they are Canadian or anything…
And imagine all the others who do not have access to legal assistance that are just sitting there while their family wonders where and how they are. This is scary shit!
She is a PhD candidate from a NATO ally. She is high visibility thanks to her public abduction video by a neighbor not unlike George Floyd's videoed murder. There are hundreds of anonymous disappearances we will never hear about.
I think about the rest of the men renditioned to El Salvador along with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It was great he was able to meet with his Senator, for a lot of reasons, including that now he knows that people care and are fighting for him and he was able to get a message to his wife and kids. Aside from the handful of other names we know, the rest were straight up disappeared and their families have no idea what happened to them. The men themselves have no idea if anyone is fighting to get them released or even know that they are in that torture prison in the first place.
It is truly beyond evil.
The clock is ticking and it is an open question whether she survives her kidnapping and rendition given the unlimited appeals these champions of the unreconstructed have. She is surely not being provisioned medication because this is a private torture facility-cum-prison.
I actually am old enough to remember how fast Joe Biden's student loan relief got quashed. The court has nothing to do when you have a lawless Executive Branch. And Americans happily gave control of it to a racist, ethnonationalist transnational criminal syndicate...because the same syndicate hates the same minorities they do.
Administration has painted itself into a corner here.
In this and the Abrego Garcia case they wanted to make an example, to intimidate, to crush dissent.
But now it'll have the opposite effect if they lose both. They wanted maximum exposure and now it's going to cut against them. If you live by the sword...
Or “FA, FO” as we say in the Wonkeverse.
OT, but I was telling mr. cc about the Hegseth "Less Generals, more GIs" post yesterday and his response was "Coup d'Idiot."
"Court Tells Feds To Get Rümeysa Öztürk To Vermont For A Goddamn Hearing Already"
Enough of this "facilitate the return ' bullshit. This is the only language those fuckheads understand.
Really, it's time that judges start locking up lawyers.
And administration
Everyone involved should be charged with criminal contempt and all of the other illegal shit they've done, including Santa Monica Fascist Stephen Miller and Kristi "I kill puppies for fun" Noem. Start with them and work the way down to the lower-level lawyers and various other toadies.
Locking them up is probably the only way to get any of this to stop because they know there are no consequences. There NEEDS to be consequences and the MAGA Congress sure as shit isn't gonna do anything about it.
I'd say "start with them and work the way up" instead.
I'd say potato, potahto, but we saw how well that worked with January 6th. They locked up the foot soldiers while the architects walked free and ended up back in the WH.
Plus, seeing the people at the top going down might make the lower-level people start following the fucking law.
All I ask is that Rubio, Homan, and the rest of these fuckers get to experience the same kindness and compassion that they are currently extending to others. Soon.
I used to think that Rubio was too milquetoast to be dangerous, but apparently he was like the cute furry in Gremlins that turned into a complete horrorshow asshole.
He's "Just following orders." And when this is all over, should be treated like all good people who were "just following orders" while committing/approving atrocities.
Didn’t k.d. lang have a song about Marco Rubio? Constant Craven, I believe it was.
Loosely on topic under the "so full of shit" fascism theme:
This Fake Trade Deal with England sounds like utter bullshit. Starmer compared it to Churchill and victory in Europe.
so..fucking..stupid
So far England is the only country willing to play trump's game of giving him everything he wants with a side of grovel. Shameful.
Well, the Brits are in a particularly bad spot, all of their own making. Due to Brexit, they put themselves on the outs with the rest of Europe. Now they NEED a trading partner. ANY trading partner.
Fuck Ted Cruz.
They are probably worried Donny pants dump will sell MI-6 secrets. Because you know, traitor
because [current occupant of the White House] is so very, very easily 'played' and saying those words are 'what it takes' to get by in this Upside Down realpolitik we all have to live in nao
Trump and his gang think they are a proxy government for the Israeli government and that anyone outside of Israel who protests for the Palestinian people are Hamas sympathizers. By that logic, if I protest Putin's war in Ukraine, and Trump wants to get on Putin's good side, he thinks it is reasonable to arrest me as if I was an enemy of Russia.
Everyone in this country needs to be free to express themselves, in political speech especially, without fear of reprisal. HIs arrests and threats of deportation are dictatorship standard operating procedures. This was true here until Trump showed up on the scene. This is a freedom Trump enjoyed until he decided other people don't have this right.
Meanwhile Israel continues its extermination of Gaza, and Trump's mouth is watering over how many casinos and hotels he can build on the land after Israel bulldozes the last vestiges of Palestinian life there. Like Putin, Trump only thinks in terms of what territory - (Pu**ies included) - he can control and the people he can terrorize into doing his bidding - or kill them off and take their land. It is all about grabbing other people's land. It is what the Israeli government is engaged in. Trump wants to cash in on it somehow. He is a greedy capitalistic Fascist in this regard.
good news, everywonk! yr
smoking lamp is lit!
and also too it is < 1 day to Hoop!
And a new pope the MAGAs already hate!
Well, they'd hate anyone that wasn't Dear Leader......
A win is a win!
and nao we can all see them hating on *an American* whom the rest of the planet will soon be publicly adoring and fêting
You misspelled "fellating."